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>Do you think it's at all realistic to believe the U.N. can come up with any plan?

I told myself to stay out of this, yet here I go again...

It would be damn nice if the U.N. could be given the opportunity to develop any plan in the first place!

I get the distinct impression that they are virtually always handed the plan. One made in the U.S.A. with the U.S. in full control.

I have read often that most U.S. congress members have a thing against EVER having U.S. troops under the command of non-American officers.
Now based on at least one experience with a Canadian officer in charge in Rawanda (no U.S. troops, but Cdn and Belgian I think) being 'controlled' from U.N. HQ your members may well have a point (ours was a disastrous outcome). But that makes it very difficult to be able to mount any kind of plan that can involve other nations.